DIAMOND N QUARTER HORSES

Hollywood Jac 86 was not an eye catcher for looks. He stood 14.3 and was a sooty palomino with a dark dorsal stripe and floppy ears.

He was born on John & Mary Bowlings Iowa farm in 1967. He was sold as a weanling to Pat Fitzgerald, who later sold the ugly colt to Spain Prestwich.

Spain said he chose Hollywood Jac 86 because he would run from side to side in the pen. At each end he would slide into the fence, do a rollback to swith directions, then run and slide again.

Hollywood Jac 86 was started under saddle as a 2 yr old. Prestwich has been recorded to say that Hollywood Jac 86 was really smart and very trainable. Prestwich also worked the colt on cattle and confirmed that he had a lot of cow sense.
Hollywood Jac 86 started into the show ring as a 3 yr old, with Prestwich riding him. The reining points started almost immediately. Hollywood Jac 86 showed very successfully in his 3, 4 and 5 year old years.

It was during this time that Tim McQuay saw him and feel in love with the stallion. Tim felt that Hollywood Jac 86 had a different stopping style than other horses. The colt just seemed to slide on forever.

Another person who liked the stallion was Richard Greenberg. When Prestwich need money to buy a farm he sold Hollywood Jac 86 to Greenberg for $3000. Greenberg knew very little about horses and when his trainer pointed out to him that Hollywood Jac 86 was still a stallion we was surprised. At Greenwood's first show with Hollywood Jac 86 he was in 28 classes in a 2 day period. He entered just about everything, from poles to pleasure to reining. He misses the all-around that day by 1/2 point. Despite Greenberg's lack of horse skills he and Hollywood Jac 86 made a great team. Greenberg won 12 NRHA bronze trophies and earned 2 NRHA non-pro world champion titles on Hollywood Jac 86. When Greenberg retired the stallion from the show ring Hollywood Jac 86 had $6089 NRHA earnings. Plus prior to Greenberg owning the stallion, Spain Prestwich had showed Hollywood Jac 86 and won the AQHA Superior award in 1972.

Hollywood Jac 86 was impressive in the show ring, but no one wanted to breed to the ugly duckling. Greenwood even tried to give free breedings away and had a few takers. Hollywood Jac 86 mainly bred Greenwood's mares in those beginning years. Then he also put this foals into training with people such as Tim McQuay, who believed in the potential. McQuay has been known to say that he owes his success to the Hollywood Jacs. He had ridden over 2 dozen or more sons and daughters of Hollywood Jac 86, from Crome Plated Jac and Jacs Little Pine to Mr Melody Jac and Hollywood Dun It.

McQuay liked the stallion's offspring so much he introduced one of his clients, Sally Brown to Greenberg. Brown was in the process of changing from cutting horses to reining horses. This was the start of an outstanding breeding program. Many of the mares Hollywood Jac 86 bred were Great Pine daughters, which was a cross that turned out to work really well. Hollywood Jac 86 also crossed well on the Nifty Bee line, but it is important to note that he produced excellant offspring from Doc Bar to Bueno Chex to Two Eyed Jack to Dun Berry.

Hollywood Jac 86 had fewer foals that many other sires during that time, but he sired more NRHA Futurity Champions and NRHA World Champions than any other stallion in his day. In the late 1980's and early 1990's he toped the NRHA leading sire list for 5 or 7 years. As for Earning Power, he was the first stallion whose get have earned more than $1 million in NRHA events. Hollywood Jac 86 sired 8 NRHA world Champions and 9 reserve champions.
Hollywood Jac 86 offspring are known for their heart, trainability, style and longevity.

(Information from Legends Volume 3; published by Western Horseman Inc., 1997, and other website pages.)